Word: griefs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When TWA Flight 800's passenger list was finally released, the grief it itemized was distributed evenly, with two exceptions: Stevenson, Alabama, which lost five citizens; and Montoursville. The French club sent 16 kids, ranging in age from 14 to 18, to fly to Paris, along with five adult chaperones. Since then, America has seen a hundred snapshots of the town's grief: a boy in a turned-back baseball cap ducks his head in silent contemplation; a woman comforts a girl in front of a sign exhorting students to have a safe summer. A boy who played sports with...
...events following that other explosion in the sky, TWA Flight 800. In particular I suffer over what the families are going through and will go through, all of which will be made worse by the way America tries to pretend there's no such thing as tragedy. The great grief scam has begun again...
...called grief-therapy expert assigned to me went into his act. According to him, I had good memories to comfort me and could look to the future with hope. He started barking questions at me about Theo. What year in school was she? What were her hobbies? I told him to leave me alone. My grief was the grief of Greek tragedy, his response the verbal junk food of psychobabble. My husband, sunk in his own grief, told the "expert" to leave. He refused. My husband had to threaten to grab him by the neck and throw...
...changing for the better. Cheer up, America! No matter how horrible things seem, the future is always bright and tragedies are mere glitches on the road to happiness. On. Dec. 21, 1988, I found out what a lie that is. My only child is dead, and for me grief is constant and permanent...
...next day, after I got the news that Theo was dead, I went home and found out that the grief-book industry was rolling strong. Grief books are profitable, I'm told, right up there with How to Make Dieting Easy and Ten Ways to Improve Your Self Image if You've Just Lost Your Job. I was given religious books about souls meeting in heaven, books that told me how best to understand the grief process...